We Tread These Waters Again
Little by little, I am becoming a gamer again. My inner child is jubilant, while my outer adult is trying to figure out exactly when I'll have time for everything. And there is a lot of things I have left to do:
First there is Pokemon. I say first because it is one of the tasks I find myself enjoying the most at the moment, but also because it was one of the first excursions back into gaming I made recently. In what could only be called a psychotic Nintendo-rage, I purchased outright a copy of Pokemon Platinum, which will be waiting soundly for me in March when I return from my trip to Chicago. Having not played my copy of Diamond in quite some time, I dusted of the bugger to see what needed to be done, and found the task at hand... daunting.
There's a team of carefully bred baby pokemon that I need to EV train and pump with drugs before Platinum comes to shore, and I need to make zounds of money to do so. Everything else in the game is technically an afterthought, due to the fact that none of it will matter once I start a new game on the other cartridge. And yet, for some reason I find myself doing (and possibly enjoying) every menial task Diamond can throw at me, possibly to stave off the freakishly boring hours that EV training will cost me, and possibly because I forgot that in rare instances this game can actually be fun.
As I peruse the Battle Tycoon's Tower, I feel the rush of battle and become excited by the possibilities of even more worthy opponents in the distant future. I suppose it helps that I recently got my boyfriend re-addicted to the game as well, and besides helping him capture the critters I also need to be wary that he too is a gamer and would sooner congratulate me for a win as have his Kabutops decapitate me with a Guillotine attack. He's just that intense a gamer.
When I'm not battling it out on Pokemon, you may find me on my Wii playing Mario Kart Wii. I assure you that I haven't given my final verdict on this game, and possibly never will, due to some teatering levels of difficulty and control schemes that seem to have been implemented as "gimicks" at best. And that's being kind. But I am a sucker for decent unlockable content, and MKW has a decent amount of it. The difficulty of said game is just at the level that makes me want to hack the code and beat up the developers for being so irresponsible.
I won't waste time by reviewing a game that everyone has dug into already, save to say that everything they say is pretty much true as a whole, for better or for worse. Though I think I find the online gameplay to be highly enjoyable and not nearly as random as the CPU battles. At the same time, due to a glitch at my school, my Wii can no longer log onto the internet, so the best I can hope for is the back and forth win/loss granted to me whenever my boyfriend decides to use Peach or Baby Daisy and play me (I have yet to unlock Daisy).
I bought Animal Crossing: City Folk, but somehow likened it a bit too much to real life and refuse to play it. Knowing my past history with AC games, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before I wander back into my city of Tangy Ro (or whatever I named it this time) to pull weeds, fish, and do everything else I refuse to actualy do in real life.
So the most important thing I'd say I'm getting into is WoW. World of Warcraft.
Yes.
I feel bad for myself too, but I have decided to give this game a hearty retry, only because the man (or in this case, my man) says I need to. Reluctantly, I'm purchasing everything. There's no need to play if I'm not going to go all out. Besides, the only way I'll be able to play this game and have some possibility of enjoying it is if I play as an explorer rather than getting deep into the the mythos of everything. This is of course made tougher by the fact that I'll be playing on a PvP realm (server). I'm going to give it at least one or two honest months.
First there is Pokemon. I say first because it is one of the tasks I find myself enjoying the most at the moment, but also because it was one of the first excursions back into gaming I made recently. In what could only be called a psychotic Nintendo-rage, I purchased outright a copy of Pokemon Platinum, which will be waiting soundly for me in March when I return from my trip to Chicago. Having not played my copy of Diamond in quite some time, I dusted of the bugger to see what needed to be done, and found the task at hand... daunting.
There's a team of carefully bred baby pokemon that I need to EV train and pump with drugs before Platinum comes to shore, and I need to make zounds of money to do so. Everything else in the game is technically an afterthought, due to the fact that none of it will matter once I start a new game on the other cartridge. And yet, for some reason I find myself doing (and possibly enjoying) every menial task Diamond can throw at me, possibly to stave off the freakishly boring hours that EV training will cost me, and possibly because I forgot that in rare instances this game can actually be fun.
As I peruse the Battle Tycoon's Tower, I feel the rush of battle and become excited by the possibilities of even more worthy opponents in the distant future. I suppose it helps that I recently got my boyfriend re-addicted to the game as well, and besides helping him capture the critters I also need to be wary that he too is a gamer and would sooner congratulate me for a win as have his Kabutops decapitate me with a Guillotine attack. He's just that intense a gamer.
When I'm not battling it out on Pokemon, you may find me on my Wii playing Mario Kart Wii. I assure you that I haven't given my final verdict on this game, and possibly never will, due to some teatering levels of difficulty and control schemes that seem to have been implemented as "gimicks" at best. And that's being kind. But I am a sucker for decent unlockable content, and MKW has a decent amount of it. The difficulty of said game is just at the level that makes me want to hack the code and beat up the developers for being so irresponsible.
I won't waste time by reviewing a game that everyone has dug into already, save to say that everything they say is pretty much true as a whole, for better or for worse. Though I think I find the online gameplay to be highly enjoyable and not nearly as random as the CPU battles. At the same time, due to a glitch at my school, my Wii can no longer log onto the internet, so the best I can hope for is the back and forth win/loss granted to me whenever my boyfriend decides to use Peach or Baby Daisy and play me (I have yet to unlock Daisy).
I bought Animal Crossing: City Folk, but somehow likened it a bit too much to real life and refuse to play it. Knowing my past history with AC games, I'm sure it's only a matter of time before I wander back into my city of Tangy Ro (or whatever I named it this time) to pull weeds, fish, and do everything else I refuse to actualy do in real life.
So the most important thing I'd say I'm getting into is WoW. World of Warcraft.
Yes.
I feel bad for myself too, but I have decided to give this game a hearty retry, only because the man (or in this case, my man) says I need to. Reluctantly, I'm purchasing everything. There's no need to play if I'm not going to go all out. Besides, the only way I'll be able to play this game and have some possibility of enjoying it is if I play as an explorer rather than getting deep into the the mythos of everything. This is of course made tougher by the fact that I'll be playing on a PvP realm (server). I'm going to give it at least one or two honest months.
Labels: Mario Kart, Pokemon, Videogames, World of Warcraft, Wow
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